Partner 1	Dr. Serge Berné, Dr. Bernard Dannielou, Dr. Yann-Hervé De Roeck, Dr. Nabil Sultan	Institut Francaise de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Brest, France
Partner 2	Dr. Fabio Trincardi, Dr. Alessandra Asioli, Dr. Antonio Cattaneo, Dr. Annamaria Correggiari	Istituto di Geologia Marina (CNR-IGM), Istituto di Biologia del Mare (CNR-IBM), Bologna, Italia
Partner 3	Dr. Alexander C. Skinner, Dr. Martyn S. Stoker	British Geological Survey (BGS), United Kingdom
Partner 4	Dr. Thomas Wonik	Institut für Geowissenschaftliche Gemeinschaftsaufgaben (GGA), Hannover, Germany
Partner 5	Dr. José-Abel Flores, Dr. Francisco Javier Sierro Sánchez, Dr. María Angeles Bárcena	University of Salamanca (USAL), Spain
Partner 6	Dr. Marina Rabineau, Dr. Laurence Droz	Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO) (JRU 6538), Brest, France
Partner 7	Dr. Ralph Schneider, Dr. Gerold Wefer, Dr. Michael Diepenbroek, Dr. Ursula Röhl	Fachbereich Geowissenschaften (UBRM), University of Bremen, Germany
Partner 8	Dr. Miquel Canals Artigas, Dr. Roger Urgeles Esclasans, Dr. Isabel Cacho Lascorz, José Luis Casamor Bermudez	CRG Marine Geosciences, Dept. of Stratigraphy, Paleontology and Marine Geosciences, Univ. of Barcelona (UB), Spain
Partner 9	Dr. James P. M. Syvitski, Eric W. H. Hutton	Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Partner 10	Dr. Gregory Mountain	Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (Lamont-DEO), Columbia Univ, Palisades, USA
Partner 11	Dr. Jean-Pierre Suc, Celia Beaudouin	University of Lyon 1, (CNRS JRU 2158), France
Partner 12 (ass. to partner 5)	Dr. Joan Grimalt, Dr. Francisca Martinez Ruiz	Inst. of Chemical and Environmental Research, (ICER-CSIC), Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Univ. de Granada (IACT-CSIC